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The support to Rafael Correa is still topical despite the fact that the former president does not reside in Ecuador. Candidates linked to the citizen revolution were rewarded in Sunday's municipal and regional elections. The in-depth review confirmed the victory of Jorge Yunda to the mayor of Quito and Paola Pabón in Pichincha prefecture. For its part, Cynthia Viteri, candidate in the Christian social field, won in Guayaquil, a quarrel on the right.

The most important surprise of this vote was the split of the vote in the Ecuadorian capital, where the party candidate of the Ecuadorian Union obtained 21.35% of the votes, the record being 98.52% . He was followed by Luisa Maldonado, from the left-wing Social Engagement movement, with 18.44% of the vote, and in third place, with 17.72%, he was the general and former mayor of Quito, Paco Moncayo, party favorite . elections

In keeping with Yunda's past in the ranks of former President Rafael Correa, of which he was a member of the Assembly, and with the political identification of Maldonado, Sunday's elections in the Ecuadorian capital have been interpreted as a victory of the coromanismo.

A possibility that is corroborated by the triumph of Paola Pabón in the prefecture of Pichincha, of which Quito is the capital. Over 41 years and former secretariat of the political administration of the presidency of Correa, Pabón obtained, with 98.20% of minutes counted, the first position in the province of the capital, with 22.16% of the votes. He is followed in second place and Juan Zapata, from the Alliance of the Democratic Left, represents 20.75% of the vote. Quito was until now ruled by politician Mauricio Rodas, center right.

More than 13 million Ecuadorians went to the polls to elect 5,675 local authorities and their deputies from mayors, prefects, urban and rural councilors and members of the parish councils of the country. The seven vowels and the same number of deputies of the Council of the citizen participation (Cpcc) were also elected, which will replace the current council, of transient nature, which validated a popular consultation held on February 4, 2018. The Cccc is the organ that in Ecuador, to other state power control authorities, such as the Attorney General or the Comptroller.

As for Guayaquil, the other most important city of the country and its main port, with 98.40% of the minutes counted, the result gives the victory to the social-Christian Viteri, who got 52.81% of the votes. Jimmy Jairala of Centro Democrático, who won 31.75 of the vote, was imposed on the expression of the province of Guayas.

In the Andean city of Cuenca, the third of the country, leads the poll to 99.79% of the vote, the candidate Pedro Palacios, Alianza Azuay, with 28.05%, followed by the representative of the Movement Renace, Jefferson Perez, 22, 18 percent.

At a vote also very divided in this city, they are followed by 19.51% by the former mayor of the city, Marcelo Cabrera, who has allied with the center-right Creo.